To Parents of kids with asperger & high functioning autism - Asperger's Syndrome Message Board

off kilter · 09-03-2005, 09:59 AM

My son age 7 &1/2 with severe autism had hernia surgery thur. through a fluke my husband had met the surgen but I had not had a chance till we were in preop. The surgen had been recomended to us by our reg. Dr. I found him a little odd. He answered questions in one or two words and seemed to need prompting to give us more. His voice was flat, at this large hospital we often see Dr's who use English as a second lang. so I didn't pay much attention due to my concern for my son and just figured the Dr. was in a hurry to get my son taken care of. After my son was in recovery we spoke to the surgen again, after he left the room something clicked and I asked my husband if he knew the Dr. had high functioning autism or aspergers. He laughed and wondered how long it would take me to figure it out. My son's Dr. had told my husband when he refered us to him that the urologist had aspergers. Amazing!

jasiusmom · 09-03-2005, 07:00 PM

That is wonderful!! I will share that story with my family. It certainly gives hope.

I also hope your son is recovering quickly. Surgery is never a fun experience.

jeffreys mom · 09-03-2005, 08:29 PM

Offkitler; I hope little Paul is doing well. He has been through alot over the past few months. Like the previous posters, thanks for sharing this story. I worry about my son's future and I really needed an inspirational story such as this right now.

Again, I hope Paul is doing well and thanks again.

off kilter · 09-04-2005, 05:11 AM

Paul's doing great. Although yesterday he took off his surgical dressings and ate them. God he's fast! They made sure I had extra dressing in case he got into them. Only problem they didn't give me any ideals on keeping him still to reapply them. Isn't Autism wonderful. The Dr. was funny. I had asked him to check Paul's butt while he was asleep because sometimes when I wipe him there is a small amt of blood. ( usually not a big deal, it can result from passing a large stool) but I wanted to make sure there wasn't a fissure. While Paul was still asleep in post op we saw the Dr. and I asked him if he had checked Paul's butt and he just looked at me dead pan and said No. Just no? After we stood there a minute he realized he should say something else you could almost see him processing the situation. He said we can look now, and seemed please he had given the correct answer. So we rolled Paul over and took a peek, very strange situation. There was no sign of a problem. I have since learned through our regular Dr. that he has a emotional, social assistant that is always by his side to help him deal with parents if I did not understand Autism I would find him very odd to deal with.

jeffreys mom · 09-05-2005, 03:08 AM

hmmmmm That's really interesting. I wonder so much about the future. I'm glad to hear Paul is doing well. It sounds like you have your hands full but you always sound so upbeat about it. Most of us here are dealing with just the Autism but you have medical conditions compounding that. Poor Paul.... It's hard to expalin medical procedures to a typically developing child.

Keep your upbeat attitude, You are very inspiring